klaus said:good attitude!
take a new display for me while you are at it
and do it mr bean - style, skateboard, yellow gloves, funny face
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You want frys with that?
Jedda said:
Well displays are big and would require some setting up, so I think they might be setting it all up prior to leaving for the night and then they can open the curtains as soon as they open - or even earlier.
Lets hope there are a few suprises
Jedda said:
Well, Eisner tried to get back at him by dealing with the Devil (aka MS).
I won't be surprised if he comes crying back to Steve in a few months asking for quality entertainment again, however.
Phillip said:
For those of us who work in film, you need a 30" as it supports a full 2K film plate on one screen. It is a pain to have to keep resizing stuff to fit on the current 23" panels in shake and after effects. It is aimed at the developers (who also need bags of screen space - although they dont have the resize issue as they can just go to another screen) and the film/tv industry. I will personally be bringing my card out of my wallet at around 7pm local time tonight.
oh yes... appols, forgot it was 2am there,
im guessing new imacs,,, in your stores now.. heheheheh
im guessing new imacs,,, in your stores now.. heheheheh
klaus said:Keynote is at 10 am right? and that's gmt -8, so
that makes it 9 hours time difference from here (belgium gmt +1),
7 pm tonight, keynote starts, juij
it's 11 am for the moment, just another 8 hours!
must get some work done now
Yep.
So:
6 pm in the UK & Ireland & Portugal
7 pm CET
7h 25m left...
Yeah - they have the painters in.Icekey said:
Seriously though - this could be evidence of a "available TODAY" comment by Steve about a new product?
I know ThinkSecret says no new iMacs, but personally I am expecting to see them.
I don't really care either way as the iMac is not something I'd consider anyway. I'm a PowerMac guy.
Screened in windows and floor displays?
Something huge must be coming. It's been a quiet year, and Steve did say in January that they had a lot of great products in the pipeline, so maybe this the flood gates opening.
Of course, I am trying to be cautious about my optimism, but it's getting hard.
Less than 8 hours to go...
Something huge must be coming. It's been a quiet year, and Steve did say in January that they had a lot of great products in the pipeline, so maybe this the flood gates opening.
Of course, I am trying to be cautious about my optimism, but it's getting hard.
Less than 8 hours to go...
Well it's probably likely, I mean Steve would wan to check out what we think so as to get an idea how the crowd at the Keynote might respond.
That's right Steve... I can see you, I know your watching
Anyway, it doesn't really matter what it is, I mean even a hardened Communist like me is reduced to a consumeristic junkie hopped up on materialistic heroine by Apples foshiz, be it a 1" screen for $500000; if its got that tastey logo, I love it.
Really though, i couldn't care less about screens, but I hope for designers sakes they are big and fairly priced. What I am looking for is new free software (Safari is infinitely better than IE, but still buggy as hell), some mind bendingly cool features in Tiger and *prays* something cool for under £150, like a device or something, I don't care what, just something I can afford
That's right Steve... I can see you, I know your watching
Anyway, it doesn't really matter what it is, I mean even a hardened Communist like me is reduced to a consumeristic junkie hopped up on materialistic heroine by Apples foshiz, be it a 1" screen for $500000; if its got that tastey logo, I love it.
Really though, i couldn't care less about screens, but I hope for designers sakes they are big and fairly priced. What I am looking for is new free software (Safari is infinitely better than IE, but still buggy as hell), some mind bendingly cool features in Tiger and *prays* something cool for under £150, like a device or something, I don't care what, just something I can afford
Apple would have to make these displays with some great new technology that makes them 10 times better than other displays which are cheaper for me to think about getting one at their current prices.
If Apple can take 2 year old technology and reduce the price on it and call it an iMac, they can do the same with a display. Especially when the prices they are paying for them are dropping all the time. Time to pass on the savings you knuckle-heads. Or would you rather see other companies monitors always attached to your computers? I still think they could lower the prices using some rebate, but even if they did, it would only be on the larger ones, they never give us a break with the lower priced units.
If Apple can take 2 year old technology and reduce the price on it and call it an iMac, they can do the same with a display. Especially when the prices they are paying for them are dropping all the time. Time to pass on the savings you knuckle-heads. Or would you rather see other companies monitors always attached to your computers? I still think they could lower the prices using some rebate, but even if they did, it would only be on the larger ones, they never give us a break with the lower priced units.
thatwendigo said:
Thatwendigo, I agree with you that no other major manufacturer manages to get all the ticks in the boxes like Apple does...compact size, good ergonomics and design, reasonable performance, good software bundle and of course the sheer usability of the whole bundle. I agree so much so that I put my money where my mouth was, and have bought a G5 and 2 PowerBooks in the past 12 months. But the awful truth is that I don't think these things are actually important in the grand scheme of things. A sub 2% market share for Apple is testament to that. While you may be technically correct, in a market-wide sense, you're wrong, and I think in a way we're all 'wrong' here. If the benefits that Apple espoused were actually important, then they would have a much higher market share. The numbers speak for themselves...98% of computer users don't care enough about the things you mention to buy an Apple...or at least don't care enough to buy an Apple at a price that Apple can afford to provide it to them at.
A shame, but the truth IMHO.
Not really, I mean how many people do you know that have switched to a PC?! I don't know anyone, and I know many PC users that would switch if only Macs wren't so expensive.
Price is the key here, Apple can only rape our wallets so much before we start to have enough, and while they do how do they expect people to join the ranks?
I would NEVER use a PC unless I was forced too, every aspect of them is horrid and sloppy, and Macs are creative powerfull and in all user aspects PERFECT. But my bank account isn't as limitless as Steves.
Price is the key here, Apple can only rape our wallets so much before we start to have enough, and while they do how do they expect people to join the ranks?
I would NEVER use a PC unless I was forced too, every aspect of them is horrid and sloppy, and Macs are creative powerfull and in all user aspects PERFECT. But my bank account isn't as limitless as Steves.
oingoboingo said:
It is all a matter of timing. Right now, maybe 98% are plain wrong and we are right, and 98% are just plain victims of better marketing. Never forget, a lot of spam got sold, but eventually the GI marketing spin had its day and now we all pay more to eat steak!
A lot of Windows users are just ignorant to the benefits of a Mac.
Here in Smart Country, USA... alright, its Greenwich Village.. 80% of the laptops you see people using in coffee shops and in college are Macs.
Here in Smart Country, USA... alright, its Greenwich Village.. 80% of the laptops you see people using in coffee shops and in college are Macs.
johnnowak said:
New York is the best place in the world... just thought I'd mention that *runs*
People are always talking about Microsoft having 90+% marketshare. Can you please tell me where most of that 90% is at and how it is used? I think we need to be more realistic about marketshare. If most of that 90% is win 95-98 and being used in a business or a home that does not upgrade or buy new software then who cares how much marketshare they have? Apple needs to tell us the real numbers on marketshare because I think Apple must be doing pretty well to still have such an effect on the rest of the industry. Apples marketshare may be low, but I do think that their computers are used much more than some PC in a server closet. Also, people buy many more PC's than macs but they also throw away more PC's than Macs. Does anyone count this in their figures? Apple can never have more marketshare than microsoft, but it can compete with the marketshare of companies that make PC's....someday, if they start selling business computers.
As of right now, the Apple Store is listing 17" Studio Displays as next day delivery. So I'm skeptical that the 17" display is going away immediately.